{"id":826617,"date":"2026-08-26T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826617\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:34:10","slug":"barry-keoghan-to-reprise-top-boy-role-for-netflix-series-jonny-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826617\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Keoghan To Reprise &#8216;Top Boy&#8217; Role For Netflix Series &#8216;Jonny Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/barry-keoghan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barry-keoghan\" data-tag=\"barry-keoghan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Keoghan<\/a> is back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/top-boy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_top-boy\" data-tag=\"top-boy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Boy<\/a> world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Saltburn star has agreed to reprise his role as Jonny McGee for a five-part <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> prequel series, which will be written by Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcGee was an antagonist in Season 5 of Top Boy, a high-ranking member of the Irish mob who distributed drugs in London for his uncle, Tadgh McGee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKeoghan and his business partner Des Byrne will co-produce Jonny Boy through their company Wolfclub Productions. Cowboy Films is also producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe pitched our vision and idea to Netflix and the executive producers and they were so supportive in wanting to bring our passion project forward, exploring Jonny McGee\u2019s origin story through a new bold lens,\u201d said Keoghan and Byrne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers are Charles Steel and Alasdair Flind for Cowboy Films; Bennett for Easter Partisan Films; Keoghan and Byrne for Wolfcub Productions; Aubrey Drake Graham and Adel \u201cFuture\u201d Nur for DreamCrew Entertainment; Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson for SpringHill Studios, a Fulwell<br \/>Entertainment label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJonny Boy is not the only expansion of the Top Boy universe. Netflix has also greenlit Jaq (working title), a series that will focus on BAFTA-winner Jasmine Jobson\u2019s character. Ryan Calais Cameron is the writer and creator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers are Steel and Flind for Cowboy Films; Bennett for Easter Partisan Films; Calais Cameron and Jobson; Graham and Nur for DreamCrew Entertainment; Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson for SpringHill Studios, a Fulwell Entertainment label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Keoghan is back in the Top Boy world. The Saltburn star has agreed to reprise his role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[139412,22988,65408,88,217,30334,92],"class_list":["post-826617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-barry-keoghan","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-top-boy","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}